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Not pretty when that guy goes down at 1.19 minutes. Riding in large groups makes me nervous...
As far as your bike issues, I would adjust the valves and clutch. If the valves are tight, hard starting could result and most or all of the hawks have been reported with tight valves as delivered. After adjusting my valves, my hawk starts instantly. With a dragging clutch, the bike will tend to stall at low speed with the clutch pulled in, stop and go on tight trails. Repeated start attempts will lill the battery quickly as well. With my hawk I have found that adjusting the clutch to leave the proper free play results in not enough disengagement, and leaves the clutch dragging and makes it difficult to impossible to find neutral> a common issue with the hawk. "Overtightening" the clutch slightly seems to help and does not result in clutch slipping, which I can imagine would lead to pre mature wear.
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